Senior System Performance Engineer

Job Title

Senior System Performance Engineer

Role Summary

Senior System Performance Engineer on the Silicon Solutions Team responsible for productizing performance controllers across pre-silicon planning, bring-up, tuning, validation, and production.

The role collaborates with architecture, design, firmware, and software teams to characterize silicon behavior, maximize performance and performance-per-watt within power/thermal limits, and apply data-driven methods to accelerate tuning and debugging.

Experience Level

Senior - requires at least 5+ years of relevant experience in silicon validation, system-level design, and power/performance optimization.

Responsibilities

Key responsibilities include technical leadership across characterization, tuning, validation, and production stages.

• Lead productization of performance controllers from pre-silicon planning through bring-up, tuning, validation, and production.
• Define controller requirements and features in collaboration with architecture, design, firmware, and software teams.
• Characterize and tune controller behavior across workloads, operating conditions, silicon variation, and power/thermal constraints to maximize performance and perf/Watt.
• Correlate silicon behavior with pre-silicon expectations; debug and resolve complex bring-up and closed-loop performance issues involving HW, firmware, software, power delivery, and thermals.
• Apply AI/ML and data-driven analysis to HW telemetry and characterization data to detect anomalies, accelerate tuning, and improve validation efficiency.

Requirements

Must-have technical skills and experience; separate list of preferred qualifications follows.

• Minimum 5+ years experience in silicon validation, system-level design, and power/performance optimization.
• Proven hands-on experience with silicon bring-up, validation, and productization.
• Strong understanding of silicon power/performance, technology node impacts, and hardware-software interactions at the system level.
• Hardware architectural orientation and strong hardware debugging/problem-solving skills.
• Strong data analysis and logical reasoning skills and familiarity with HW lab environments.
• Ability to collaborate with global, cross-functional teams.

Nice-to-have:

• Extensive experience with DVFS, voltage/frequency management, HW telemetries, performance throttling, and silicon protection mechanisms on advanced ASIC/SoC products.
• Experience correlating controller behavior across simulation, silicon, firmware, and system-level measurements and converting findings into production tuning.
• Experience applying AI/ML to engineering workflows such as tuning, analytics, anomaly detection, or debug automation.
• History of contributions that improved controller behavior, silicon performance, power efficiency, or thermal management.

Education Requirements

B. Tech or M. Tech in Electronics Engineering stream.

About the Company

Company: NVIDIA

Headquarters: Santa Clara, California, USA

NVIDIA is a global leader in accelerated computing, renowned for its innovative solutions in AI and digital twins that transform diverse industries. The company specializes in networking technologies, providing end-to-end InfiniBand and Ethernet solutions for servers and storage that optimize performance and scalability. NVIDIA serves sectors such as high-performance computing, enterprise data centers, and cloud computing, constantly reinventing its products and services to stay ahead in the market.